Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-09
WASHINGTON.
Over Six Hundred Applicants for Posi-
tons on the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Leading De ocrat Thinks Whitney Will
be Put in tho Treasury Department
Menntng's Retirement.

INTER STATE COMMERCE COMMISSIONERS
WASHINGTON, Feb. S.--The number of
persons who have at leas. been mentioned
to the President as suitable for inter-
state commerce commissioners is said to
be 600 This is not surprising, for there
are over 400 applications for the Consul
Generalship at Paris. A great many Of
thepersons who have been proposed to
the President Will not even be considered.
Some are known to be unfit, while the
great majority possess no quaiitca-
tons which particularly tit them
for these important places. The greater
portion Of the applicants are attracted by
the comparatively large salary, for $500
and possible term of six yesrs seems O
large salary toa country politician or to q
man just going out of office, who has lost
his influence and his clients at home and
scarcely knows where to turn for
a livelihood. The persons whom
! publice men on good relations
at the White House say are be-
! ing most seriously considered for these
| places are persons who would not neces-
sarily be attracted by the salary, and as
appointments.
| if rendered, there is much doubt. In the
| long list Of names there are few, and
few only, upon which the mind of the
President is supposed to be resting. As
sistant Commissioner Upshaw is quoted
as authority for the statement that Gen
eral Atkins will be one of the appointees-
Mr.. Herman of New York, the son OF
ex-senator Herman, is thought 70 be the
n,,1rT ba Dns
in contemplation. The President, of
course, knows him well, and he himself
is well known to the congressman who |
framed and successfully managed the |
interstate commerce bill. Mr.. Herman |
was one of the most important witnesses !
before the Interstate commerce commit |
tee, and many of his suggestions have |
been Incorporate in the bill which has |
lust became law. 1t is understood that |
Mr. Herman will accept the place. If Mr |
Herman declines, the eastern commission !
er will be Mr.. Charles 2. Clark, late |
President OF the New York and New
England Road.
The only thing which seems TO be re-
garded as certain is that the President |
will distribute the five commissioners, so
far as practicable, geographically, so that
be fairly represented The gentleman |
most talked of from the northwest is
William Window of Minnesota, eX-Sen-
ator from that state, and Garfeld's Sec
rotary of the Treasury. MIR. Window,
during his long career in Congress, paid
special attention to Interstate commerce;
was one OF the pioneers who urged legis-
lation upon that subject, and was chair
man of the committee on transportation
routes to the seaboard, which made re-
port in 1879.
The man from the southwest will not
be chosen until the President has con-
ferred with Mr.. Reagan. 1t is believed
that the President will complete the COM
mission during the present session of the
Senate. SO that they may be confirmed
before March 1.
This will exclude from competition for
these places the little army of congress-
men who will be out of q JOB upon tile4!
close of this session. Mr.. Letter of Chi
cagO, who, for the last three or four win x,
ters, has been q resident of the capital
city, is mentioned as candidate, but if {
current reports are true as to some of
his large railroad investments, he would ,
not be eligible under the law unless he !
should divest himself of these holdings :
CABINET CoNJECTUREs c
WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-A leading Dem J
ocratic Senator said this to-day:9 ,
81 think it very probable that Mr.. Whit
ney will be transferred to the Treasury t
Department upon the retirement of Mr. .
Manning, and that Mr.. Pendleton, of
Ohio, now Minister to Berlin, will sue t
;eed Mr.. Whitney as Secretary of the ;
Navy" !
Others are of opinion that Mr. Pendle- f
ton will succeed Mr.. Manning, and the :
act that he, at one time, was afflicted
with the greenback craze, and is the
author of the Pendleton idea, would not {
prevent his appointment to that position,
low that that question has become dead
ssue.
TO BE GIVEN RIGHT TO APPEAL.
WASHINGTON, Feb. S.--The House COM
nittee on judiciary to-day instructed the
chairman to report fayorably the bill Civ |
ng to the claimants under the French
'poilation claims act right of appeal from
ne Court of Claims to the United States
Supreme court. T
RIVERS AND HARBoRs. a
WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-The Senate D
committee on commerce will not give D
iced to the urgent entreaties of the Il
house cOnmlttee on rivers anu harOOrS d
lot to make any amendments to the river +
md harbor bill, through fear of final de- .
eat in the House. On the contrary it is
aid that the Senate committee propose to
Increase the bill by amendments so that u
he amount will be raised from SS,OO0,- >:
90 to sll,O00,00O. A very earnest I:
fort is to be made TO attach to the
ill proposition relative to the Henne- ;:
in canal, which was recently advocated ::
y Senator Cullom. That measure, in );
lew of the threatening war talk and of 5.
he defenseless condition of the lakes ::
nd interior cities should Great Britain ,:
end her light-drait war vessels through s:
ne Welland canal, is probably much .
tronger in the Senate than it ever has A,
cen, particularly since within the last Z
w weeks its enactment has been very e
arnestly recomm ded by the Secretary
| War and the Chief of Ordnance as